Rinteln: Wächter, 1676. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Exercitatio physica de artificio navigandi per aerem... Rinteln: Wächter, 1676. 4to (190 x 154 mm). 28 pp. Signatures: A-C4 D2. Woodcut device on title, head pieces. Modern calf, new endpapers. Internally crisp and clean with only very little browning. Paper flaw in blank margin of leaf B1. Fine, wide-margined copy. ---- VD17 1:054846F. FIRST EDITION, one of three issues printed in 1676. This one with title page blank. The dissertation is inspired by Lana Terzi's Prodromo. Lohmeier's treatise (which was reprinted twice in the seventeenth century) has been described as "an impudent piracy" (in The Aerial Ship, 1910) but whilst some sections are a verbatim copy of Sturm's translation of Prodromo he includes mention of experiments made by Boyle, Toricelli and Guericke that Lana Terzi does not mention. Very Good.

London: Printed for Henry Herringman, 1676.. 8vo. (xxii), 321, (1) pp. Contemporary full panelled calf, sometime neatly rebacked to style, spine with raised bands, red gilt lettered label, old engraved armorial bookplate of an E.C. Fanshawe to the front endpaper, an older ownership inscription to the head of title page. One full page engraving on the verso of the last preliminary leaf. Small loss to leather on upper board, minor wear to front hinge though sound, light rubbing to extremities, a good copy. One of the finest pastoral poems in Italian Literature, first published in 1590 and in this translation in 1647. Wing G2177.

Galle, Joannes (1600-1676) - The Libyan Sibyl under a tree, hilly landscape in the background. Signed at the bottom right of center:'Antonius Bloclandt Inuent. / Philip. Gall. fe.', numbered on the bottom left:'2'; title in lower margin:'SIBYLLA LIBYCA:' and four Latin verses in two columns:'Discutiet tenebras. hic miseris conferet auxilium'; titled above in the sky:'SIB. LIBYCA' Engraving on paper with broad margins; platemark: 290 x 210 mm, total: 343 x 248 mm; state II although in Hollstein only one state known, before lettering in the sky, hatchings remodelled; small stain in the sky otherwise in great conditions; New Hollstein 240; W 14; Le Bl. 3

Amsterdam Meurs Jacob van. "Aimoey Quemoey". Orig. copper-engraving from O. Dapper's (1635-1689) "Gedenkwürdige Verrichtung Der Niederländischen Ost-Indischen Gesellschaft in dem Käiserreich Taising oder Sina . ", published in Amsterdam by J. van Meurs, 1676. With title in map, a decortive cartouche with explantory notes ("On these Islands whith are now becom a Kingdom used the famous Pyrates; Yquon et Kocksinga to Resort"), a cartouche with the scale of map with 5 cherubs, a ship and a wind rose. 29,5:35,5 cm (11 3/4 x 14 inch.). A map of Xiamen (Sia-men) and Kinmen - islands off the southeast coast of China in the Taiwan Strait.

London: Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 395 x 510mm. Minor repairs to centerfold A fine map of Hungary, from Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', with eight costume vignettes down the sides and four city prospects, including Buda (Ofen), along the top. Published in the first English atlas of the world it has a text description of the country in English on the reverse.

Lisbon, Excudebat Ioannes a Costa [João da Costa], 1676.. 4°, disbound. Large woodcut arms on the title page (see below). Woodcut tailpiece of a bowl of fruit. Text on pp. 3-10 in two columns. Some mild dampstains. In good condition. Eleven lines in early ink manuscript on final blank leaf. 11 pp. *** The Prefatio (p. [2]) gives a brief history of this officium; it includes the date 1587. Page 11 includes the date 1592.The vivid but rather crude coat of arms on the title page includes the arms of Portugal and the lance wound of Christ (?), with a crest of a cross and the crown of thorns. The inscription around the edge mentions St. Francis, Portugal, and the Franciscans. Much of it is difficult to decipher, since the lettering gets progressively more cramped.St. Catharine of Bologna (1413-1463) was beatified in 1524 and canonized in 1712. Her major work, Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare (Le Sette Armi Spirituali), was important in the dissemination of vernacular mysticism in the early modern period. First printed in 1475, it went through dozens of editions and was translated to Latin, French, Portuguese, English, Spanish, and German.*** Not in Arouca; cf. O36, an officium for St. Catherine of Bologna printed in Lisbon, 1669 by Domingo Carneiro. Not located in Porbase, which lists the officium for the saint printed in Lisbon, 1669 by Domingo Carneiro (two copies, one lacking the title page and "perfuradas"). Not located in Copac.

[NL] Begrafenisstoet van de in maart 1676 te Hamburg overleden Wirtz. Linksboven de Oude Kerk te Amsterdam. Onderaan het portret van Wirtz en rechtsonder in de prent een verklaring van de deelnemers aan de stoet. Muller en Van Stolk dateren de prent ten onrechte op 24 oktober 1676. Wirtz onderscheidde zich in de oorlog tussen Zweden en Polen en werd door de Zweedse koning in de adelstand verheven als baron van Ornholm. Later ging hij over in dienst van de Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden, tot hij in 1674 ontslag vroeg. Twee jaar later overleed hij te Hamburg en drie jaar na zijn overlijden is zijn lijk herbegraven te Amsterdam in de Oude Kerk (NNBW I, 1581). Gesigneerd middenonder: 'ROMANUS DE HOOGHE'. [EN] Funeral procession of the deceased Wirtz Hamburg in March 1676. Above left the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. Underneath the portrait of Wirtz in an oval, on the bottom on the right a list of the participants in the procession. Muller and Van Stolk date the picture wrongly on 24 October 1676. Wirtz distinguished himself in the war between Sweden and Poland, and was knighted by the Swedish king as Baron Ornholm. Later, he went into the service of the Republic of the United Netherlands until he resigned early in 1674. Two years later he died in Hamburg and three years after his death, his corpse was reburied in Amsterdam in the Oude Kerk (NNBW I, 1581). Signed on the bottom under the epigraph:'ROMANUS DE HOOGHE'

Amsterdam: Elzevier, 1676. 24mo (11,1 x 6,0 cm). (8), 392, (102) pp. Contemporary vellum, joints with 5 thongs, spine with handwritten W.1519, linen page-marker. Printed in red and black. Including the engraved title page as frontispiece. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian the Great [482-565] has become famous for his rewriting of the Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, still the basis of civil law in modern society. The Institiones was originally divided into three books. In this third Elzevier-edition, it is divided into four books, preceded by the Prooemium. The engraved frontispiece depicting Lady Justice with blindfold, balance and sword over on a pedestal. The typographic title page with Elzevier's printer's device. One headpiece, two endpieces and several 4- and 5-line decorated woodcut initials.Triangular small piece of lower right corner of frontispiece torn off, a few unobtrusive stains, marginal scriblings on p 286, but otherwise a good copy. For a full description and more images please visit www.zaalbooks.nl .

London: Henry Brome at the Gun in St Pauls Church-yard 1676 - Bound in recent full calf preserving an old morocco label. One leaf (A2) is lacking. This is the engraved title page. The previous page (A1) explaining the symbolism of the illustration is present, as is the regular title page. A century of observations has separate dated title page on leaf L1r; pagination and register are continuous. "The lives and characters of the physicians of Bathe" has separate title page dated 1677 on leaf M8r; pagination and register are continuous. This copy conforms to the first edition of ESTC R10888 apart from the lack of engraved title. This copy has an additional plate at page 23. The binding is holding firmly and is in very good condition, with just some light wear to surface / extremities from handling. Contents are holding firmly and are generally in good condition if a little toned, with some light scattered foxing, occasional creases or dust marking though nothing too disfiguring, a few early ink inscriptions including at head of title, occasional ink marks, folding map of Bath with small perforation and a few nicks to edges, pp. 69 with old repair to for edge, sig G4 with loss to lower margin at gutter, final leaf with two small perforations, one just touching into inner edge of letterpress on one side of the leaf. Recent plain end papers. A good copy overall, lacking frontispiece / engraved title Pp.[30], 200. Conforms to Wing G2192 & ESTC R10888 [Attributes: First Edition]